Reflections on open courses « Connectivism - 0 views
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There is value of blending traditional with emergent knowledge spaces (online conferences and traditional journals) - Learners will create and innovate if they can express ideas and concepts in their own spaces and through their own expertise (i.e. hosting events in Second Life) - Courses are platforms for innovation. Too rigid a structure puts the educator in full control. Using a course as a platform fosters creativity…and creativity generates a bit of chaos and can be unsettling to individuals who prefer a structure with which they are familiar. - (cliche) Letting go of control is a bit stressful, but surprisingly rewarding in the new doors it opens and liberating in how it brings others in to assist in running a course and advancing the discussion. - People want to participate…but they will only do so once they have “permission” and a forum in which to utilize existing communication/technological skills.
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The internet is a barrier-reducing system. In theory, everyone has a voice online (the reality of technology ownership, digital skills, and internet access add an unpleasant dimension). Costs of duplication are reduced. Technology (technique) is primarily a duplicationary process, as evidenced by the printing press, assembly line, and now the content duplication ability of digital technologies. As a result, MOOCs embody, rather than reflect, practices within the digital economy. MOOCs reduce barriers to information access and to the dialogue that permits individuals (and society) to grow knowledge. Much of the technical innovation in the last several centuries has permitted humanity to extend itself physically (cars, planes, trains, telescopes). The internet, especially in recent developments of connective and collaborative applications, is a cognitive extension for humanity. Put another way, the internet offers a model where the reproduction of knowledge is not confined to the production of physical objects.
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Knowledge is a mashup. Many people contribute. Many different forums are used. Multiple media permit varied and nuanced expressions of knowledge. And, because the information base (which is required for knowledge formation) changes so rapidly, being properly connected to the right people and information is vitally important. The need for proper connectedness to the right people and information is readily evident in intelligence communities. Consider the Christmas day bomber. Or 9/11. The information was being collected. But not connected.
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Royalty Free Music from Jewelbeat - 0 views
Leigh Blackall: Student authored, open, psychology text book - 1 views
A Review of NOOKStudy - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Though the software will sync information between two computers, highlights and notes created in NOOKStudy won't sync to the Nook, nor will highlights and notes created on the Nook sync to NOOKStudy. In fact, NOOKStudy couldn't even bring me to the correct page in the book I'm currently reading. At least the pages in NOOKStudy seem to correspond with the pagination you'd see on the Nook, so finding one's place isn't horrendously difficult, but still. Amazon had this sort of thing figured out with Whispersync some time ago.
Official Google Blog: Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of bo... - 0 views
virtualeconomics: Twitter just quietly became a TV and radio broadcast platform - 0 views
Op-Ed Contributor - Lost in the Cloud - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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the most difficult challenge — both to grasp and to solve — of the cloud is its effect on our freedom to innovate.
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Apple can decide who gets to write code for your phone and which of those offerings will be allowed to run. The company has used this power in ways that Bill Gates never dreamed of when he was the king of Windows: Apple is reported to have censored e-book apps that contain controversial content, eliminated games with political overtones, and blocked uses for the phone that compete with the company’s products. The market is churning through these issues. Amazon is offering a generic cloud-computing infrastructure so anyone can set up new software on a new Web site without gatekeeping by the likes of Facebook. Google’s Android platform is being used in a new generation of mobile phones with fewer restrictions on outside code. But the dynamics here are complicated. When we vest our activities and identities in one place in the cloud, it takes a lot of dissatisfaction for us to move. And many software developers who once would have been writing whatever they wanted for PCs are simply developing less adventurous, less subversive, less game-changing code under the watchful eyes of Facebook and Apple.
Now in ARTstor: Photographs from ancient sites in Dura-Europos, Syria and Gerasa, Jorda... - 0 views
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Now in ARTstor: Photographs from ancient sites in Dura-Europos, Syria and Gerasa, Jordan
The Ed Techie: Montaigne, the Godfather of blogging - 0 views
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"Montaigne was living his skepticism, daring to show how a writer evolves, changes his mind, learns new things, shifts perspectives, grows older—and that this, far from being something that needs to be hidden behind a veneer of unchanging authority, can become a virtue, a new way of looking at the pretensions of authorship and text and truth. Montaigne, for good measure, also peppered his essays with myriads of what bloggers would call external links"
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Honesty
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Openness
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Office of Educational Technology (OET) - 1 views
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Secretary Arne Duncan invites comments on the draft National Educational Technology Plan.
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This plan is a draft. "We are open to your comments," Secretary Duncan said. "Tell us about how technology has changed your school or classroom." Read the plan. Share your comments, videos and examples of how technology is changing and improving education.
Open Access for Scholarly Writing - 2 views
Official Google Enterprise Blog: Laying the foundation for a new Google Docs - 0 views
The End of Cyberspace: Google's cloudy Web clipboard - 1 views
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shifts in metaphors matter
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Today I noticed that Google Docs doesn't have a clipboard; instead, it has a "Web clipboard."
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Notice that the Web clipboard isn't a conventional clipboard icon, but a clipboard with a cloud in front of it.
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